<p>My husband got laid off and we are struggling. There is $25 leftover from unemployment each month after we pay cobra!
I have a parttime job (no opportunity to increase my hours now and I’m looking too) in a low level postition in a large local business. DH applied for a job there. All jobs get screened through HR. I have the name of the department manager hiring for his position. Would I hurt/help his chances by emailing this person? I think he would be great in this postion. The company’s weekly magazine said that the HR department handled 50,000 applications last year; what if they lose his or because his hasn’t worked specifically for this type of business, they toss his application?
Thanks</p>
<p>Have you ever met the person you would be e-mailing? If you have, then I think you should do it for sure. As a consultant who changes companies all the time, I will do almost anything to keep my resume OUT of the hands of HR and get it directly to the hiring manager. HR weeds out for the dumbest reasons sometimes, and doesn’t recognize quality in key areas. They are given very “rough cut” guidelines a lot of times, and often don’t recognize something that is maybe a bit out of the norm, but very helpful to the hiring manager.</p>
<p>Even if you haven’t met this person, I still think it is a good idea, it just takes a little more finesse. If the hiring manager sees the resume and likes it, he can tell HR to keep your husband in the pool of resumes. If he doesn’t like it… well, he probably wasn’t going to like it even if HR let it through, and odds are that HR wasn’t going to let it through anyway.</p>